Drag Queen: Darcelle XV
This 89-year-old Portlander tells how and why he became the world’s oldest living drag queen performer.
Stories by TJ Acena
How to Attract, and Keep, Young Audiences: A Case Study From Oregon
A Wallace Foundation grant gave Portland Center Stage room to experiment with their marketing and engagement programs for new theatregoers.
Running Interference for Wireless Mics
What is ‘white space,’ and what is the FCC doing about theatre’s ever-crowding sound systems? An explainer.
Make Theatre, Not Waste
How green is your theatremaking? Here are some practical tips to make your work planet-friendly.
Theatres of Color Gather for Historic St. Louis Meeting
For the first time in 15 years, dozens of arts organizations of color convened to share challenges, practices, and community.
In With the New at Oregon Shakes
By doing such vital work by living playwrights, this classical destination theatre with Shakespeare in its name effectively puts them on equal footing with the Bard.
Rising Leaders of Color’s Oregon Cohort: Only Connect
A look at six young theatre workers who’ve spent the last year exploring their work and its meaning.
Portland’s Space Race
Theatres have banded together to fight the city’s rising rents, but civic and private support doesn’t hurt.
Body, Ritual, Time: Impressions From Portland’s TBA
Over 10 days of performance art, lines between performer and audience blurred, then disappeared altogether.
14 Lessons in 14 Days at the National Critics Institute
What I learned at the O’Neill Theater Center’s annual July boot camp for arts journalists.